Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Americans living on Main Street USA dream of a sinister man with a frightening
voice and a gardener’s glove with knives for fingers. To save themselves, they must plunge
themselves into the warped mind of the most inveterate liar of all time: Barack Hussein Obama.

Monday, October 28, 2013

We’ve heard The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer
say repeatedly, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your health plan, you can keep
your health plan.”

Sometimes he would be emphatic saying, “If you like your
doctor, you can keep your doctor.
Period. If you like your health
plan, you can keep your health plan.
Period.”

Finding trouble everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and
applying the wrong remedies has been the hallmark of this regime.

The Obamacare website has been a smoking ruin since its
launch on October 1, 2013.

I can envision TWMDCO sitting in the Oval Office (or teeing
it up on the greens at Ft. Belvoir) squirming over the hemorrhoid that his crowning
domestic achievement has become.

He said no one could be more frustrated with the Internet laughingstock
the website has become than him. Oh, I
doubt that.

Fifty to 75 percent of the 14
million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a
“cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their
existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law.
One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. But
TWMDCO knew that.

They’re being dumped.
So, no they can’t keep their plans.
Broken promise or lie; call it what you will.

Those who are getting dumped are supposed to go find new
insurance on the exchange by December 15 in order to be insured on January 1,
2014. But, you can’t do that because the
“Healthcare.gov” website doesn’t work.

Today, it was announced that a six-week extension until March
31 has been granted to sign up for coverage to avoid new tax penalties.

The Congressional Budget Office
estimates that 9 million people will sign up for Medicaid in 2014, compared
with the 7 million expected to sign up for private insurance on the exchanges. This is the Master Plan.

FACT: Audacity's just a nice word for being full of shit.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) October 29, 2013

We heard all last week that CBS was planning on airing a segment
on “60 Minutes” about the al-Qaeda
assault on the consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans were murdered
after being abandoned by the United States government.

Figuring it would be the usual fare of propaganda and cover-up
that is the hallmark of CBS and the rest of the central planning stenographers;
I made a decision to DVR it and watch the Green Bay Packers play the Minnesota
Vikings instead.

The attack began at 9:40 PM (3:40PM Washington time) and ended
around 4:00AM (10:00PM Washington time).
This was in the middle of the business day and everybody was watching in
the White House, CIA, State Department and the Pentagon.

“When Chris Stevens was killed in
Benghazi, Libya, on the anniversary of September 11th last year, it was only
the sixth time that the United States had lost an ambassador to its enemies.
The events of that night have been overshadowed by misinformation, confusion
and intense partisanship. But for those who lived through it, there's nothing
confusing about what happened, and they share a sense of profound frustration
because they say they saw it coming.”

“In this story, you had to work
really hard to find the facts and not be seduced by anybody. So, we left about
98 percent of what we learned on the floor—didn't even report it—because unless
we could substantiate it with primary sources that we truly trusted and whose
motivations we trusted, then we didn't even go there.”

The administration cracked down
hard on leakers. No one wanted to put
anything in writing. Everybody was terrified
to talk about the filthy lies told over and over again by the White House and
Hillary Clinton.Everybody, that is,
except Andy Woods
and Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya, Gregory
Hicks.

When four Americans were killed
in a flash of hatred and barbarism in Benghazi 388 days ago the political
finger-pointing began. Few knew exactly
what happened that night.

This president and his former
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, do know.
They have covered up and obfuscated the truth.

The
guard who spoke with CBS noted that Al Qaeda tried to kill a British
ambassador in Benghazi three months before the attack on the anniversary of
9/11. He added that the terror group said online that it would attack the Red
Cross, the British, and then the Americans in Benghazi.

From September 12, 2012 until
today this administration has attempted to fend of criticism that “someone”
gave the order to stand down.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) refuses
to apologize for a fundraising
email in which he featured a burning cross.
That cross forms a “T”. He
asserts that it represents the Tea Party.

After being called out for his
demented message, he sent a statement to Roll Call
refusing to apologize for the imagery.
That statement was filled with insensitive and racially charged names.

“Tea Party members have
circulated countless altered pictures depicting President Obama and
the First Lady as monkeys. Tea Party members also called my fellow Member of
Congress, civil rights hero John Lewis, a ‘n***ger,’ and Rep. Barney Frank a
‘faggot.’ One could go on and on, because there is overwhelming evidence that
the Tea Party is the home of bigotry and discrimination in America today, just
as the KKK was for an earlier generation. If the shoe fits, wear it.”

This demented Democrat was ousted
from office in 2010 but was renominated in the newly gerrymandered, heavily blue
Ninth District two years later and won in the general election.

Apparently the voters in that
district pray with Grayson at the altar of Satan. They and Grayson are a disgrace to humanity.

He is the most incredibly twisted, delusional liar ever to
be elected to office.

UPDATE: Hey Alan, if you happen across this post and don't like my portrayal of you, just remember you started it.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The Op-Ed section of The
Wall Street Journal tells us today that, “the exchanges fiasco is revealing
the larger truth that ObamaCare's claim to technocratic expertise was always a
political con. It won over the New Yorker and made ObamaCare designer Peter
Orszag a celebrity. But it was all a veneer for ObamaCare's real goal, which is
to centralize political control over health care."

The White House pitched President
Obama's Rose Garden event on Monday as a new transparency, but the event
amounted to an infomercial, complete with a 1-800 number. Operators are
standing by and "the product is good," the President said. He even
encouraged Americans to bypass the website and apply for benefits over the
phone or by mail.

It is delicious irony that the
regime decided to launch the ObamaCare website in October. Halloween brings with it the summoning of frightening
mythical creatures in the gloom of night.
Had the website been launched in November it would simply have been
referred to as a turkey.

Welcome to Sleepy Hollow. People are spending endless hours trying to
create an account. Each time they are
met with failure. They’ve called the
hotline and been met with failure.

Enter
the Headless Horseman—Barack Hussein Obama.
Indeed a creepy fellow. Little
can be more frightening than the specter of a headless man who rides aimlessly
through the night in search of his own head.

The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza
offers this rejoinder for ObamaCare, “The ACA is the most important liberal
project in decades. If it fails, it is a complete disaster for liberalism.”

The regime is guilty of putting
the cart before the horse and now is pleading with Verizon to fix the hotline
problem and a bevy of the “best and brightest” have been summoned to fix the
computer software which is ten years old and filled with faulty codes.

The overwhelming obstacles that plague
ObamaCare are beyond the pay grade of the techies.

Monday, October 21, 2013

I foolishly believed that a
government shutdown would never materialize.
Yes, I was naive.

I know many believe that the partial
government shutdown proved that federal workers can disappear without being
missed. I would have to agree with
you. None of the furloughed workers in my agency were missed. They were genuinely non-essential.

Now, we are learning that some
federal workers applied for, and received, jobless benefits while they were
furloughed. Some of them will likely get
paid twice for not working. According to
the Labor Department, several states are expected to allow these workers to
keep both their jobless benefits and the back pay. Must
be nice.

Unlike those furloughed federal
workers, I am considered “key and essential personnel and a first responder”
and I was ordered to report for duty each and every day of the shutdown without being paid.

I am furious that the furloughed
workers will receive back pay for what amounts to a paid vacation. They didn’t work one day, one hour, one
minute, one second during the shutdown.
I think it is an outrage.

For sixteen days, my bills
continued to come in my mailbox with the expectation that they be paid in full
and on time.

I have spent the last few years
of my life working feverishly to become debt-free in preparation for my “golden
years”. With only nine months left
before I can retire, my home is paid off and my car is eleven years old.

I pay for everything with cash,
check or debit card.

On October 9th, a
memorandum for distribution from the Chief Human Capital Officer was issued.

“On October 1, 2013, many federal
agencies were partially shut down due to a lapse of appropriations.As a result, many Department of _________________ employees
were subject to furlough, which places them in a non-pay status until Congress
passes an appropriation.In addition,
even these employees who are reporting to work to perform excepted functions
will not receive pay until an appropriation is passed by Congress.”

“Because these employees will not
receive pay during the lapse in appropriations, some of our employees may have
difficulty in timely meeting their financial obligations. This lapse in appropriation is expected to be
a temporary situation and one that is beyond our employees’ control. We appreciate your organization’s understanding
toward _________________
employees until this situation is resolved.”

“Our employees will be returned
to pay status as soon as possible, We
hope this letter helps explain the furlough process for our _________________
employees, and we extend our thanks for your patience and compassion towards
our employees during this time when they may be negatively impacted by the
lapse in appropriation.”

Seriously? How many creditors do you think would respond
compassionately to a bullshit letter like this?

I didn’t apply for jobless
benefits, I didn’t ask my friends to lend me money and I didn’t apply for a loan to sustain me during the shutdown.

Last Monday, on my day off, I
decided to sell some of my silver coins and old gold jewelry in order to pay
for the replacement of the evaporation leak detection pump that was causing an
idiot light to remain illuminated on the dashboard. That light would prevent my car from passing
its safety inspection which is required in my state.

This year, my state requires that
your vehicle property tax be paid simultaneously with your vehicle registration
renewal—none of which can happen without passing the safety inspection first.

The week before, I was driving
home from work when my power steering gave out.
Over the course of the last two weeks I’ve spent a little more that $600
to keep my car running so I can get back and forth to work.

I was planning on selling some of
my cherished baseball memorabilia today had the shutdown continued. I’ll hold those things in reserve if, on
January 15, 2014, the spittle-laced barbs of the children of The Beltway return
to their sickening antics.

Randy-g recently posted a comment
saying he hoped “all is well…You are missed.” I guess Randy noticed that it’s been two
weeks since I last posted something and wanted me to know that he was a teeny
bit concerned.

I’ve eaten more than my fill of
bologna sammiches and PB&Js. I’m
sick of drinking just plain water. I’ve cut
corners in every way I know how. I’m
going to make it, but honestly, this has taken a toll on me.

I haven’t slept well because of
the worry. When I have slept, I’ve had
nightmares. All in all, I’m pretty lucky
because the Good Lord provided a way for me to make it through all this. I am thankful and humbled by His blessings.

One final thought…I despise this
Congress whose indifference to how I and others may have suffered through their
stupidity and whose only thought is to orate in sound bites suitable for
consumption on television and I despise the mainstream media which ignores the
decay of a free society.

I am reminded of the sagacious
words of Cicero, one of Rome’s greatest orators:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even
the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates
is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the
traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling
through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”

“For the traitor appears not a
traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face
and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of
all men.”

“He rots the soul of a nation, he
works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city,
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less
to fear. A traitor is the plague.”

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

So here’s my suggestion for
solving the current government shutdown and the looming debt ceiling
debate: Let’s get Ray
the Dealer to bring some quality buds to the West Wing. Let TWMDCO fire up a doobie and I’ll bet he
negotiates with the GOP.

Can’t you just picture it—Bob
Marley playing on the Preezy of the United Steezy’s iPod, smoke rolling around
his face, glazed-over eyes—good times.

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

“While the most anti-American
president in American history might not be too unhappy at the downward spiral
of his nation’s international standing and economic strength, it is not by his
design but rather a result of the sad accident of having (twice) elected a
naïve, petulant, self-obsessed non-leader.”

[One potential caveat: While
Obama is not clever enough for his apparent incompetence to be anything but
real, some of his advisers/puppet-masters, like David Axelrod and Valerie
Jarrett, are. For those enemies of America, Obama is just their front man, their
very own Billy Mays, hawking a radical leftist vision in a pleasant
container. The question then is what percentage puppet is our president.]

The day of reckoning is coming.

The Senate Chaplain, Barry Black,
had to use the morning invocation to publicly dress down the members of the
Senate:

“We acknowledge our
transgressions, our shortcomings, our smugness, our selfishness and our pride.Deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting
to sound reasonable while being unreasonable.Remove from them that stubborn pride, which imagines itself to be above
and beyond criticism.Forgive them the
blunders they have committed.”

Putting personal politics ahead of what is best for this nation is egregious. These stupid bastards must grow up.Innocent people are paying the price for their dithering.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Two Saturdays ago, before the
government shutdown, I visited my local home improvement store to pick up the
items I needed to create a “flower tower”.

I was inspired by the beautiful
towers that Adrienne of Adrienne’s
Corner had created some months back using petunias.

I already had the tin snips for
shortening the 4-foot wire fencing needed and the scissors for trimming the
landscape fabric. All I needed were the
utility knife, some zip ties, the fencing and the fabric.

I also went to my favorite
greenhouse and purchased several trays of Cool Wave® pansies. This series of pansies entered the
marketplace last fall. The owner of the
greenhouse told me that they are ideal for planters and hanging baskets because
they bloom profusely with little fuss and there’s no need for deadheading. They are perfect for my plant hardiness zone.

Pansies are one of the most
popular and recognizable cool weather annuals. In Germany they are known as Stiefmütterchen,
which means “little stepmother.” Anyone
who’s read any of the Grimms’ fairy tales will know that stepmothers had an
image problem in old Germany. They have
little frowning faces, hence the appropriate moniker of “little stepmother.”

My plan, at the time, was to
construct the towers on my days off which are Sunday and Monday.

Friday night after work, just two
miles from home, my power steering gave out.
When I woke up Saturday morning, I called the car repair shop I trust
and asked if it would be safe for me to drive my car back and forth to work one
more day without damaging my car. The
answer was “No, because doing so could damage the rest of the power steering
system like the rack and pinion.”

I drove the car to the repair
shop and the mechanic who knows my car very well determined that I needed to
replace the drive belt tensioner and the serpentine belt.

One of the guys drove me home
rather than have me wait for the repairs to be completed. I decided to tackle the flower
tower while my baby was being fixed.

There was ample time for me to
prepare the planter boxes on my deck. A
few hours later the repair shop called to let me know they were coming to pick
me up. I cleaned up a smidge, rode back to
the shop, paid for the repairs and headed back home.

With the towers completed, all I
had to do was place the pansies in the towers and stand back to admire how beautifully
they had turned out.

I went inside and had a chicken
salad sammich, some Sun Chips and a Sunkist to wash it all down.

I decided to look out my window
to admire my work yet again, when what should I see, but my feathered friend
about which I have written before.

The red shouldered hawk was
perched as pretty as you please on the handrail. It was looking slightly upward and I was able
to snap this photo from inside my window overlooking the deck.

On September 8thI
wrote that I believed the hawk had built a nest in one of my trees or in
one nearby. The trees on my property have
only lost a few leaves thus far and so I cannot yet determine if the nest is
actually in one of my trees.

My local wildlife organization
informs me that this raptor may begin to nest as early as January. If this is true, I hope to be able to witness
its courting display during the months between January and April. Apparently the southern population of red
shouldered hawks is not migratory.

This means I will be blessed with
the beauty of God’s magnificent creature and its offspring for years to come.

I’m sharing this story with you
because the beauty of this raptor reminds me of what I love, which is freedom,
rather than what I fear.

I am considered “key and
essential personnel and a first responder”.
Yes, I am a federal government employee and I am required to report for
duty each day despite the fact that I am not getting paid while the government
is shut down.

Had I earnestly believed that the
shutdown would actually happen I wouldn’t have spent the money for the flower
towers. And the car repairs really took
a bite out of my checking account.

I feel a little desperate right
now. I don’t know how I will pay the
bills when they come due if this impasse lasts much longer. So, I will try to
live by this quote attributed to Corrie ten Boom,
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

UPDATE: I don’t own a
camcorder so I thought I would embed this video taken by “opticalpress” on May
11, 2011. You see a red shouldered hawk
perched high in a tree and then the videographer shows the majestic bird in
flight in slow-motion. I hope this helps
you to appreciate the regal splendor of this raptor.

It’s no coincidence that the
National Parks Service released this statement yesterday:

"The Honor Flights are being
granted access to the WWII memorial to conduct First Amendment activities in
accordance with National Park Service regulations applicable to the National
Mall and Memorial Parks."

What brought about this reversal
of abuse of our treasured veterans who waited 65 years for their own memorial
on the National Mall?

A team of legal experts at The
American Center for Law and Justice led by Jay Sekulow and Robert W. Ash
warned the president, “Should the closure of the memorial continue, we will be
obligated to file a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction against the
government.”

Their letter, delivered to the
White House via oversight service, said the “Greatest Generation” as
represented by the veterans who were scheduled to visit the memorial, and who
actually moved the barricades and tore down barriers erected by workers on the
orders of the administration, “stepped forward during some of the darkest days
of our history and placed themselves in harm’s way to protect the country they
loved and our way of life.”

“Veterans of the Second World War
are dying at the rate of approximately 640 per day. In order to allow veterans
to see the memorial that was erected in their honor, Honor Flights have been
organized to bring interested veterans to Washington to see the memorial that
was erected to honor them,” the attorneys explained.

“Whoever in your administration
made that decision exercised extremely poor judgment and should be admonished.”

“What we are witnessing is a
disturbing violation of the First Amendment rights of our nation’s heroes,”
said Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the ACLJ. “By spending money to bring in
barricades to attempt to shut-down an open-air memorial is abhorrent and deeply
insulting to WWII vets who defended the very freedoms that are now threatened
by the Obama administration’s actions.”

The issue of the closure of the
World War II memorial took over headlines nationwide on Wednesday, just a day
after the first confrontation developed.

Additionally, Rep. Steven Palazzo
(R-MS) issued this terse warning:

“With due respect, Mr. President,
we demand: First, that the World War II memorial be reopened immediately for
all veterans, their families, and the public to honor and recognize the courage
and achievement of those who fought to keep us free; Second, that the memorial
be opened once again for First Amendment expressive activity by all members of
the public; Third, that the barricades be taken down and removed forthwith; and
Fourth, that you issue a personal apology on behalf of your administration to
the veterans and their families who have been affected by the current closure.”

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

At the
World War II Memorial there is a Freedom Wall.
The Monument is known as the Field of Gold Stars. The inscription there reads:

Here We Mark The Price Of Freedom

At the
entrance to the memorial is the Announcement Stone. The inscription on that stone reads:

Here In The Presence Of Washington And Lincoln,

One The Eighteenth Century Father And The Other The

Nineteenth Century Preserver Of Our Nation,

We Honor Those Twentieth Century Americans

Who Took Up The Struggle During The Second World War

And Made Sacrifices To Perpetuate The Gift Our Forefathers

Entrusted To Us:

A Nation Conceived In Liberty And Justice

The memorial weaves the watershed
event of the 20th century into the National Mall's historical narrative as it
humbly pays tribute to America’s greatest generation.

More than 125 Honor Flight
veterans from Mississippi and Iowa arrived for a previously scheduled visit to
the World War II Memorial Tuesday morning, the first day of the government
shutdown, to find it barricaded by the National Park Service. Several members
of Congress escorted them inside after cutting police tape and moving barriers
that blocked the memorial.

The trip had been planned for
months for a group of 91 veterans as well as family members and escorts.

The
Daily Caller and Ace of Spades reported that The World’s
Most Dangerous Community Organizer specifically denied a permit to allow these
veterans to visit the memorial.

Former Senator Bob Dole said of
the memorial:

“When World War II ended, the
generation of Americans that defeated the forces of tyranny neither asked for
nor expected a memorial. They came home. They went to work. And they built a
nation that remains the world's most powerful example of democracy and freedom
in action.”

“Many heroes from that great
conflict did not return home. They didn't live to see the fruits of their
sacrifice. More than 12 million of the
16 million who served in uniform will not live to see the memorial completed.
We build this memorial in their memory. We build it so future generations of
Americans never forget what the World War II generation was called to do. We
build it so they never forget the cost of freedom.”

“There will come a day when many of our youth will be called veterans. Although
our prayers ask for peace, the lessons of history teach us that freedom is not
free. It must be earned and it must be protected from those who would conquer
and oppress.”

“The World War II Memorial will
reinforce the message of our National Mall—the message of freedom—for
generations to come.”

We owe our World War II veterans—in
fact, all our veterans—a debt we can never fully repay.

The kabuki theater over national
park closings is a disgusting, vindictive and trivial antic by this president
and his minions in the Democratic Party.
It is meant to give the American people the sense that the function of
federal workers is to open velvet ropes and point to where Washington once
slept.

For the troops, many of whom are
wheelchair-bound and now in their 80’s and 90’s, who fought at Pearl Harbor,
Wake Island, Bataan Corregidor, The Coral Sea, Midway, Guadalcanal, New Guinea,
Buna, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Murmansk Run, Anzio, St. Lo, Alsace, The Battle of the
Bulge and Remagen Bridge, storming the Memorial against National Park Police
was an easy victory.

Erecting barricades to keep these
honorable men and women from the memorial that was built in their honor became
something vile. All these elderly vets
wanted to do was lay flowers and pay their respects to their fallen brothers— a generation that changed the world.

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